http://www.crossingsknoxville.com
cooking, adventuring, exploring, singing, eating, snuggling, writing/reading poetry, charleston, lindy hop, balboa, blues, having honest discussion with friends who call me out when I'm not honest, climbing trees (or anything, really), singing, meeting new people and making awesome new friends, skinnydipping, taking walks slowly, smelling flowers, playground time, great hamburgers, gardening, playing in mud, caving, hugs, camping, hiking, sushi, feeding people, remaining in touch with my own brokenness, looking at pictures that other people have taken...
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
-Albert Einstein
"What we play is life."
-Louis Armstrong
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
-Anaïs Nin
be bop, hard bop, hip hop, jazz, African, funk, blues, world, groove/soul, good vocalists, ELLA!, classic rock, bluegrass, newgrass, old country, classical, good vocalists
www.christabelmusic.com
The Cosby Show. End of story.
The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey, girl meets GOD by Lauren F. Winner, SexGod by Rob Bell, Stories of Emergence edited by Mike Yaconelli, The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, Chocolat by Joanne Harris, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Captivating by John & Stasi Eldredge, Abba's Child by Brennan Manning, Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them, more that I'm not thinking of right now...
I don't think about heroes a lot, but right off the bat I'd have to say Ella. She knew what her gift was, and she went with it at full steam. She owned it. I admire that. I'm working towards that.